An Kai

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	An Kai (安凯)
Alias(es)	Hanks; Hanks-Kai; Will-Kai; Will-Bukelin; Gulair-Kai. He also impersonates Hanks’s neighbor and father 29 53 124 176 247 411.
Gender	Male
Origin	Blue Star; formerly a player of the Divine Arrival Game before entering its world 420.
Affiliation	Goodness Home; Chaos City; his contracted and tamed subordinate factions 160 212 274.
Occupation/Role	Mage; City Lord of Goodness Home; Wayne’s teacher; Lord of Desire; Wealth Abyss Grand Lord 99 270 306.
System Level	Lv1, 10/10 experience, Locked, even after attaining much higher cultivation realms 18 323 423.
Core Talent	Immortality “∞”, granting an unlimited lifespan 18 303.
System Identity	Godmaster Lv6 at the latest explicitly supplied identity update 469.
Rankings	Godkin Ranking: 1; Divinity Ranking: 206 at the latest explicitly supplied ranking update 469 476.
Status	Alive; fighting “Teacher” in the Divine Court Ninth Layer and overwhelming him in their latest documented confrontation 483.

Power Progression

• System level, cultivation realm, spell level, and NPC quality are separate measures. An Kai’s locked Lv1 does not prevent his attributes, spells, or cultivation realms from advancing 209 323 423.
• Early panels use Intelligence, Endurance, Stamina, and Strength; later panels use Spirit, Mana, Vitality, and Physique. Attribute values also change scale, so figures from different periods are not directly comparable 18 209 423.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Intelligence 41; three spells Lv5	18	Tower cultivation unlocks another upgrade. Meditation, Fireball, and Freezing Spell reach maximum Lv5 proficiency.
Intelligence 51; other attributes 50; three spells Lv6	18	Completes the first tower inheritance requirement. His panel lists Immortality, Mage’s Body Lv1, and the identity Nobody.
Wanderer Guide	25	Gains authority to revoke Will-Bukelin’s Wanderer class and receive benefits from Will’s advancement.
Intelligence 61; three spells Lv7	26	Nearly 200 days of oasis training allow another spell upgrade. One Fireball obliterates two Desert Crocodiles.
Intelligence 81; other attributes 80	26	Another 150 days of training break the spells’ next limit; all three reach their available proficiency caps.
Endurance increased through Guide feedback	37	Will’s breakthrough to Tier One, sixth stage grants An Kai one attribute point.
Intelligence 91; other attributes 90; four spells Lv10	41	Meditation, Fireball, Freezing Spell, and Summoning reach maximum Lv10 proficiency.
Intelligence 100	41	Unlocks the Mage Tower’s second inheritance quest and access to its second floor.
Spells Lv12	53	Twenty-seven days of Meditation yield 28 attribute points; summoned Bloodthirsty Rats provide cores for skill points.
Five spells Lv13; Intelligence 176; other attributes 175	67	Five months produce 128 attribute points. Intelligence 161 had unlocked the Lv13 upgrades.
Intelligence 251; Meditation Lv16; other spells Lv15	68	A year and six months of seclusion strengthen him while he scouts the Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince.
Five spells Lv16	69	The following chapter reports all five spells at Lv16 and markedly stronger ice defenses and Fireballs.
Five spells Lv17	79	Gains 59 attribute points over two months. Meditation produces a point every 17 hours, or 16 with his staff.
Five spells Lv20; Mage’s Body Lv2	82	A peaceful year and a half yields 372 attribute points. Intelligence reaches 386; the other attributes reach 385.
Five spells Lv21; Mage’s Body Lv3	85	Spends 3,000 skill points. The talent upgrade grants 50 attribute points and doubles spell effects.
Superior− spell quality; Elite NPC	86	Testing the Lv21 spells confirms improved quality and lower-rank suppression. Meditation now produces a point every ten hours.
Five spells and Forging Lv23	91	Gains 377 attribute points over a year and a half, bringing all four attributes to at least 520.
All four attributes 526	106	Six additional attribute points follow his return to Chaos City.
Spells Lv31; Mage’s Body Lv4; Lord-Level NPC	140	Two and a half years yield 1,920 attribute points; all four attributes reach 1,302. Spell quality becomes Fine−, and his pressure can be incorporated into spells.
Beast Taming Lv20	145	Learns and immediately upgrades the spell for 400 skill points; it manifests as a black whip.
Mage’s Body Lv5; spirit-infused Meditation Lv41	149	Gains 5% Spirit Awakening Progress. Meditation reaches Fine+ quality and gains teaching and spell-suppression effects.
Fireball and Mage Armor Lv41	154	Spends 36,000 skill points and 20 mid-grade magic stones; both spells reach Fine+ quality.
Spell Fusion unlocked	160	The Sea God’s Heart improves spirit-infusion progress and elemental comprehension. Similar spells can share an upgrade cost.
Wind Blade Lv44	166	Produces fifteen-meter blades at three per second; a Body Tempering Orc is cut apart before reacting.
Lightning Strike Lv44, Fine+	169	Wayne’s analyzed scroll allows An Kai to learn the spell and maximize it for 81,400 skill points and 40 mid-grade stones.
Completed Spirit Infusion; dual Body Tempering/Spirit Forging	171	Intelligence reaches 3,001. His next spell-proficiency threshold remains 3,201.
All attributes 3,281; spells Lv45	176	A year yields 1,123 attribute points. The supplied panel reports Body Tempering and Spirit Infusion values of 65.62.
Spell Ascension; Tier Six Heaven-and-Earth spells	177	Ascends Beast Taming and fused Meditation. Meditation becomes automatic, yielding one attribute point every six hours.
Meditation Lv51; Mage’s Body Lv6; Legendary NPC	189	Spell quality rises to Top−. Gains Heightened Concentration and stronger guidance for mages using his method.
Tier Seven; attributes individually equivalent to Tier Eight	209	Each attribute meets Tier Eight requirements, while spell levels remain Lv60. His actual cultivation tier trails his attribute strength.
Iron Body and Subtle Control	218	Learns the Abyss Body-Tempering Method and spends 200,000 cores maximizing both initial physical upgrades.
Meditation Lv61; Mage’s Body Lv7; Heroic NPC	227	Each attribute gains 0.1000. Spell quality becomes Legendary−, and Meditation develops the Omniscient Domain.
Tier Seven, Level Ten; Tier Nine attributes	237	Gains more than 20,000 attribute points over a year, largely through Meditation and Omniscient Domain feedback.
Abyssal Body: Guard; Worldbreaking Art: Strength	252	Spends 200 million cores after 57 years of warfare and resource production. Both body-tempering branches reach their fifth upgrade.
Meditation Lv81; Mage’s Body Lv9; Peerless NPC	258	Spends 300,000 top-grade skill points and 10,000 Lord Cores. Spell quality reaches Epic−.
Meditation Lv90; Mage’s Body Lv10; Great-Level NPC	260	Spell quality reaches Peerless−. Talent levels nine and ten each grant an extra spell-imprinting opportunity.
All seven listed spells Lv90	262	Completes the spell upgrades before returning to the Divine Realm for advancement.
Abyss Body: Battle	267	A one-billion-core investment upgrades his physical talents; close-combat strength becomes comparable to his magic.
Earth Realm; three spells imprinted	270	Imprints Meditation, Windfire Burst, and Elemental Ice Armor. Stored gains raise his attributes to approximately 89.54.
Legend Tenfold attributes; Elemental Body Lv1; Divine Attendant Lv1	278	Attributes approach 100. Meditation develops a Domain, gains Triple Tasking, and automatically supplies five attribute points per hour.
Meditation Lv103; other spells Lv96	287	Costs double beyond spell level 100, although the scarce World Core requirement does not increase.
Nirvana: Reformation, first layer	304	Two Abyss trials raise all four attributes to 425.8143. Physical talents become Abyss-Subduing Body and Self-Realization Technique.
Nirvana: Reformation Tier Ten peak; attributes capped at 1,000	320	Further attribute gains are banked. Eight-system Meditation places him 79th on the Godkin Ranking.
Ten-element Meditation and Fireball Lv130	321	Completes ten-element fusion. Meditation gains Heaven and Earth Imprint; his Godkin Ranking rises through 46 and 36.
Four-spell reorganization; Unity-level capabilities	323	His displayed spells consolidate into Meditation, Fireball, Mage Armor, and Summoning. He considers himself already operating in Unity, although the next advancement method remains unclear.
Meditation and Fireball Lv140	325	Uses twenty Divine Godhead Fragments obtained from the Howling God.
Spirit-Subduing Body; Heart Technique	327	Spends five billion Abyss Energy Cores. Force multiplication rises from thirtyfold to fortyfold.
Domain Control Tenfold; four spells Lv160	347	Six months raise his attributes from Domain Control Threefold to Tenfold. Each attribute matches peak Eighth-Rank Divinity strength.
Meditation Lv161	349	Uses a Divine Godhead Crystal left by “Teacher”; two other abilities and his Godkin Ranking also improve.
Four spells Lv170	358	Fourth-rank Spell True Spirit cores maximize all four spells; leader cores can support advancement to Lv180.
Unity: Domain Integration, fourth rank	360	Godkin Ranking teaching raises each attribute by 1,021.2514 to 5,631.4608, advancing him from the second to fourth rank.
Lv200 spell enhancements; attribute advancement 99.9%	375	Finishes 183 days in the Sixth Layer. Mage Armor gains Square Domain and Summoning gains Forced Summoning; Chris’s aid accelerates the remaining advancement.
Four spells Lv201	397	Six months of resistance against the Abyss Aura Portal allow another upgrade, but the growing pull eventually forces him into the Abyss.
Heaven and Earth Manifestation; Hearts in Harmony	398	Reorganizes his physical talents over 198 years and eight months, while only two seconds pass outside. Their future development breaks free of the Abyss system.
Meditation, Mage Armor, and Summoning Lv210	413	Uses 27 Bamboo Man Cores. Each attribute grows by more than 9,000; his Divinity Ranking rises from 952 to 932.
Divine Body Lv4; distinctive divine pressure	421	Develops ink-black pressure comparable in distinctiveness to that of top-hundred divinities.
God Transcendence: Beyond the Gods, fifth stage; four spells Lv211	423	All attributes reach 46,803.2310. His identity is Godmaster Lv4, Godkin Ranking is 1, and Divinity Ranking is 778.
Meditation Lv220	436	Consumes Divine Essence from the God of Darkness’s doppelganger. Further upgrades require Divine Soul Essence.
Beyond the Gods, tenth stage; Godmaster Lv5	448	Reaches the realm’s peak at 64,000 attributes and satisfies its breakthrough requirement through Meditation Lv221. After five years, attributes exceed 100,000 and Divinity Ranking reaches 499.
Heaven and Earth Manifestation Lv2; Hearts in Harmony Lv2	461	Physical enlargement becomes an all-around enhancement; combat anticipation becomes prediction one second into the future.
Divinity Ranking 388	465	A later documented ranking milestone before his next comprehensive spell upgrade.
Four spells Lv231; Divine Body Lv6; Godmaster Lv6	469	Attributes reach the seventh Godmaster stage. Gains Consciousness Descent and fatal-hit doppelgangers; Divinity Ranking rises to 335.
Four spells Lv240; Divinity Ranking 206	476	Forced seclusion produces substantial realm growth; nearly 80% of his ranking increase comes from attribute advancement.
Lv260 milestone	483	Named in the chapter title. An Kai overwhelms “Teacher,” leaving him unable to resist in less than a minute; the supplied passage does not specify the individual spell levels.

Background / History

An Kai previously lived on Blue Star in a rented apartment and played the Divine Arrival Game to earn enough money to buy it. After entering the game world, he retained memories of his life as a player. His initial understanding of the Divine Realm developed in Nameless Town, where he encountered Hanks, Widow Wang, Dong Lin, and Will-Bukelin 283 420.

A past betrayal that nearly killed him made An Kai deeply suspicious of cooperation. Hanks nevertheless introduced him to an abandoned Mage Tower accessible only to First-Tier Mages. Its resources enabled his first major period of secluded cultivation, but the system then identified him as the main storyline’s first boss—a target future players would need to kill 14 18 19.

His early survival strategy revolved around concealed desert shelters, stored food, false identities, and converting wealth into magical growth. Dong Lin’s pursuit and the Evergreen Gang’s bounty repeatedly interrupted his plans. An Kai gradually moved beyond solitary survival, deciding that a faction would provide the resources and protection needed against future players 22 26 29 69.

As Goodness Home expanded, its inhabitants and institutions became the foundation of his advancement. The restored settlement gained a central castle, professional guards, research associations, and powerful contracted recruits. Its collective hunting and resource production supported spell costs that An Kai could no longer meet alone 121 124 140.

Appearance

An Kai retains a youthful face despite the passage of years and routinely conceals it beneath disguises 140.

• Disguised identities: White-haired neighbor, Hanks’s father, and Orc-like Gulair-Kai 53 124 247.
• Concealed clothing: A black robe and ordinary outer mask cover his figure during an Abyss gathering 247.
• Magical presence: Later develops a distinctive ink-black oppressive aura associated with his spells and Goodness Home 421.

Personality

An Kai is patient, suspicious, and intensely practical. He stockpiles supplies before seclusion, checks unknown passages with expendable scouts, and postpones profitable schemes when the danger outweighs the reward. His apparent cowardice or incompetence is often deliberate bait rather than a genuine limitation 26 29 59 411 413.

His pursuit of resources is frequently ruthless. He harvests summons for cores, coerces allies, manipulates enemies’ hopes, and treats entire populations as tools for cultivation. He does not regard self-interest as incompatible with righteousness: when challenged by “Teacher,” he insists that acting for himself makes him the embodiment of justice 75 121 212 237 471.

Beneath his domineering behavior, An Kai develops lasting attachments. Hanks initially helps preserve his emotional balance; Wayne, Chris, and Nurnexius later become the most important living beings in his heart. He fears attachments because an immortal life would magnify the pain of losing them, but eventually ceases treating the Divine Realm as a world he merely observes 430 465.

Abilities & Skills

Immortality and System Access

An Kai’s Immortality talent supplies an unlimited lifespan, while his system permits growth through allocated attributes, spell proficiency, and resource conversion 18 303.

• His locked Lv1 does not lock his actual strength or cultivation realm 323 423.
• Magic stones and creature cores fund spell upgrades through skill points 18 79 85.
• The Side Story provides intelligence about distant events and factions. Early reports arrive a day late, and their ordering later reflects his strength and the factions involved 22 201.
• Unlimited lifespan does not remove combat danger: he still cultivates defenses, avoids overwhelming enemies, and arranges contingencies for his followers 375 397 469.

Meditation

Meditation is the foundation of An Kai’s attribute growth and eventually the core into which he absorbs other spell systems 319 320.

• Passive cultivation: Progresses from deliberate training to automatic attribute generation 177 260 278.
• Energy production: Fused Elemental and Starry Sky methods condense energy equivalent to magic stones 177 189.
• Multiple-task control: Develops from brief divided attention into Triple Tasking 140 166 278.
• Teaching: Nearby mages gain better spell understanding; users of his transmitted Meditation develop increasingly strong allegiance to him 140 149.
• Spell Transmission and Extraction: Followers’ improvement feeds his own growth 227 260 278.
• Meditation Ring: Its Lv221 effect protects Goodness Home against descending deities while he is absent and later supports communication from afar 466 469.

Heightened Concentration and Domain

Heightened Concentration grants exceptional perception and understanding of whatever An Kai focuses on. It helps him understand relic fusion, activate the Divine Court portal, and regulate Secret Realm access 189.

• Omniscient Domain: Reveals occupants’ physical conditions and spell insights, supports their training, and converts part of their improvement into An Kai’s attributes 227.
• Elemental control: His later Domain lets him manipulate its spell elements and draw on the strength of occupants 278.
• Spell suppression: Spirit-infused Meditation initially breaks down incoming spells within ten meters, unless the caster’s talent exceeds his own 149.
• Ten-element absorption: His refined Domain stores ten spell elements and resists attacks using them; the Howling God’s mental attacks are absorbed rather than damaging it 321 323.
• True-spirit preservation: Meditation practitioners’ true spirits enter his Domain after death without consuming Divine Attendant slots 321.

Fireball and Offensive Magic

An Kai develops his first offensive spell from a basic Fireball into an overwhelming multi-element attack 321.

• Early applications: Kills guards, destroys magical beasts, and eliminates the Puppeteer who attempts to control him 26 59.
• Windfire Burst: Combines Fireball, Wind Blade, and Flame Burst; divided attention allows several fused attacks to be deployed together 166 170.
• Ten-element Fireball: Reaches a diameter of one million meters after fusion 321 323.
• Attrition tactics: Repeated Fireballs drain the God of Anger’s Domain before An Kai lures him into close combat 327.
• Other attacks: Uses sharp Wind Blades, dark lightning, and the offensive-defensive Elemental Archer fusion 166 176 289.
• Casting resource: A documented stage of his magic requires neither incantations nor personal mana expenditure, drawing instead on surrounding mana elements and heaven-and-earth power. Exhausting that surrounding supply remains a limit 247.

Mage Armor and Defensive Magic

An Kai layers defensive spells rather than relying on a single barrier 169 170.

• Freezing Spell: Expands from cooling and shaped ice into weapons, nets, frozen-space defenses, and a dark-mist domain 26 41 69 140.
• Elemental Ice Armor: Fuses Mage Armor, Freezing Spell, and Elemental Defense, preserving their defensive applications under one upgrade cost 160.
• Fire, Ice, Wind Armor: Automatically manifests a giant armored figure when he is attacked; A Ken cannot break it during testing 169.
• Ten-element Mage Armor: Weakens the Howling God’s strongest mental attack enough for An Kai to destroy it with a punch 323.
• Square Domain: A Lv200 Mage Armor enhancement used in his plan to isolate waiting divinities 375.

Summoning

Summoning supplies companions, scouts, combat support, and expendable sources of Magic Cores 41 53 75.

• Summons include Bloodthirsty Rats, Guardian Treants, Lesser Succubi, Burrowing Worms, and other creatures 53 69 82 86.
• Guardian Treants serve as mounts and ambush support, but An Kai also destroys and replaces them to harvest their cores 69 75.
• Summoning is unreliable for his immediate needs: some creatures are inedible, lack cores, or fail to provide the Elite core required for enhancement 41 86 91.
• Forced Summoning appears among his Lv200 enhancements 375.
• Later, the Summoning Gate reshapes a summoned true spirit’s memories, inserting An Kai as the central figure behind its past achievements 467.

Contracts and Beast Taming

An Kai uses magical binding to turn defeated enemies and ostensibly cooperative partners into loyal subordinates 274 275.

• Contract advantage: The system removes the contract binding from his own body when Wayne and Malken sign their agreements, leaving him secretly able to violate it 99.
• Loyalty management: His Contract spell gains a loyalty display and more slots as it levels 140.
• Covert control: Supposed Mutual Support Contracts become Slave Contracts in his hands, supplying agents inside hostile factions 275.
• Beast Taming: Initially manifests as a whip; Spell Ascension expands its targets to magical beasts and half-beastmen, including dragons 145 177.
• High-level targets: Subdues the Tier Nine Green Demon and permanently binds the Nirvana: Origin Tracing three-headed hound 237 274.
• Bound followers provide information, recruit further targets, and communicate through their connection to him 274.

Spell Fusion and Spell Imprinting

The Sea God’s Heart initially lets An Kai improve several compatible spells for the cost of one. His later research replaces dependence on the artifact with core-centered elemental absorption 160 321.

Technique	Function	Limitation or distinction
Spell Fusion	Combines related spells into shared upgrade groups 160 170.	Some spells cannot join particular combinations; Haste and Beast Taming remain outside the documented fusion groups 170.
Spell Ascension	Converts spells into Heaven-and-Earth spells with major new effects 177.	Requires enormous expenditure of mid-grade magic stones 177.
Spell Imprinting	Strengthens an imprinted spell and gives it an advantage over unimprinted spells 270.	An Kai preserves unused opportunities until he obtains suitable spells 270.
Ten-element fusion	Strengthens a chosen core spell with metal, wood, water, fire, light, wind, lightning, ice, mind, and space 321.	His successful core-centered method proves more effective than relying on the Sea God’s Heart 321.

Physical Cultivation

An Kai develops his physical body alongside his magic, overcoming the assumption that a mage is vulnerable in close combat 218 267 327.

• Iron Body: Greatly increases toughness 218.
• Subtle Control: Lets 70% of his strength accomplish what previously required full exertion 218.
• Regeneration: Later body talents regenerate limbs and internal organs; Spirit-Subduing Body further improves regeneration and toughness 267 327.
• Heart Technique: Multiplies applied force fortyfold and identifies bodily weaknesses 327.
• Heaven and Earth Manifestation: Enlarges him into a giant while preserving his abilities; its Lv2 form enlarges him through an all-around enhancement rather than simple swelling 398 461.
• Hearts in Harmony: Unilaterally attunes him to an opponent’s intentions. At Lv2, it predicts their actions one second ahead 398 461.

Divine Body and Godmaster

His evolving body talent and NPC identity provide suppression, protection, and influence beyond ordinary spellcasting 140 189 469.

• Suppression: Weakens lower-quality or lower-talent opponents; later talent pressure affects professionals up to two tiers above him 140 189.
• Consciousness Descent: At Godmaster Lv6, mentioning his name allows him to sense the speaker’s location and project his consciousness there. He uses it to kill insulting players, including those speaking privately 469.
• Fatal-hit protection: His 2,000-member Divine Attendant Guard Corps becomes doppelgangers, each able to absorb one fatal hit for him. He suspects the protection has limits 469.

Disguise, Intelligence, and Research Support

• Uses false identities to evade bounties, acquire supplies, misdirect enemies, and shift blame 29 53 68.
• Embeds contracted agents in hostile meetings and rival factions 275 347.
• Learns Forging and enhances equipment, although successful +6 enhancement requires an Elite magical-beast core 91.
• Relies on Wayne for spell analysis and research, and An Daun for detectors and blacksmithing 99 205 327 347.
• Recognizes a time spell element through his experiences in the Abyss and the Giant Vertical Eye’s true spirit. He considers time reversal possible but has not demonstrated mastery of it in the supplied material 398 420.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Meditation Staff — Left by Dong Lin; shortens early attribute-training intervals. Its special effect disappears after Meditation reaches Lv21. Later enhanced to +5 82 86 91.
• Storage Rings — Hold food, books, magic stones, and other supplies. One taken from the Evergreen Gang has a two-cubic-meter capacity 18 26.
• Disguise Mask / Disguiser — Supports his many assumed identities. An early mask reaches +5; a later Top-Grade version produces the Orc-like Gulair-Kai face 91 247.
• Brute Force Staff — Fine-quality staff used to intimidate Hanks. Its enhancement requires resources unavailable during an early tower seclusion 75 91.
• Sea God’s Heart — Binds itself to him without consent, initially confines him until Tier Seven, controls Divine Court restrictions, and grants Spell Fusion and Spell Ascension 160 177.
• An Kai’s Mage Tower — Created by fusing Lazell’s Mage Tower with the Sea God’s Heart. Advances from Lv22 to Lv51 and gains a barrier capable of covering Goodness Home and excluding living beings 205.
• Lord of Desire Token — Appears as each observer’s deepest desire. Fixating on An Kai for more than a second can trigger enthrallment and a passage to the Desire Abyss; An Kai sees a sword and shield 287.
• Ninety-nine Divine Court swords — House captured divinities before fusing into a Domain associated with “Teacher” 347.
• Attribute and divinity detectors — An Daun’s devices help compare An Kai’s attributes with opponents. Early divine measurements are unreliable, requiring eighty-one attempts to detect the Howling God’s Vitality 121 327 347.
• Mist Crystal — Condenses after Academy mist and seawater transform inside his Domain, offering a new prospect for spell advancement 420.

Relationships

• Hanks — Longtime accomplice, resource broker, translator, and emotional anchor. Their friendship mixes secrecy, bargaining, threats, and familiar insults; after Hanks dies, he remains within An Kai’s Domain 14 25 79 160 341 465.
• Wayne — His only disciple, chief researcher, and de facto steward. Initially spared for his scholarly value, Wayne becomes indispensable to Goodness Home and one of An Kai’s closest companions 99 304 381 432 465.
• Chris — Former enemy and coerced servant who becomes his lover and trusted companion. She sacrifices Lady Luck’s power to help him; An Kai eventually values her independently of the luck she once provided 121 375 398 430.
• Nurnexius — Pet, enforcer, and increasingly familial companion. An Kai mocks and confines him but regards him as half family and one of the most important beings in his life 101 303 347 465.
• Widow Wang — Hanks’s partner and an observer of An Kai’s transformation from vulnerable newcomer to ruthless ruler. He gives her Dong Lin’s Spirit Infusion Method 124 160.
• Malken — Wayne’s Tier Five Assassin guardian, later contracted as An Kai’s Guardian. Carries out deception, intelligence work, and administrative tasks under his direction 99 121 124 205.
• Dong Lin — Former mage teacher and major early pursuer. His bounty, undead expansion, and interference become lasting sources of An Kai’s hostility 22 29 85 106 158.
• “Teacher” — Enigmatic mentor connected to the Divine Court and the God of Magic. Provides major rewards and guidance, but later becomes An Kai’s opponent in a prolonged struggle inside the Ninth Layer; their identity and history remain contested 303 349 354 471 480 483.
• Will-Bukelin — Wanderer linked to An Kai through the Guide identity. An Kai repeatedly refuses his revenge requests, but later remembers him warmly and respects the exceptional spirit recorded in his Godkin entry 25 37 292 297.
• Sally Bukelin — Princess who first seeks to recruit him and later falls in love with him. He disguises himself as Hanks around her and largely ignores her feelings; she eventually reappears through the Summoning Gate 29 157 401.
• Gulair — The Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince, initially a dangerous target and later a subordinate. Impersonates Hanks-Kai and serves An Kai’s territorial administration 68 152 205 237.
• An Daun — Blacksmith Association president responsible for detectors and tower-related work. His inventions become important tools for assessing An Kai’s strength, although failures leave him fearful of losing favor 121 205 218 327 347.
• A Ken — Chaos City’s strongest fighter after An Kai during the Divine Court expansion. Tests An Kai’s defensive armor and helps spread the fearsome Hanks-Kai reputation 169.
• Allie — Contracted cultivation partner whose stored vitality increases An Kai’s attributes. Her disclosures give him information about the Elven Queen’s cultivation methods 189.
• Lord of Life — Intimate associate whom An Kai visits while maintaining his relationship with Chris 281 309.
• Li Dabao — Loyal player and outspoken admirer. Supplies useful development ideas and later becomes An Kai’s means of repeatedly extracting spell-upgrade rewards in the Ninth Layer 260 451 476.
• Giant Vertical Eye — Formerly threatening Abyss figure whose true spirit becomes frightened and submissive. Its time-element trace provides An Kai a valuable insight 413 416 420.
• God of Spring — Guards An Kai during his advancement, increasingly motivated by fear after witnessing the deaths of his former companions 469.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Main-Story Boss and Future Players

• The system designates An Kai as the first boss required for main-story progression, despite his belief that he should have been a player 18 19.
• Fear of endlessly returning players motivates his search for a faction and later his plan to control or sever Abyss passages 69 223.
• His actions accelerate Divine Descent and disrupt the expected beta timeline. Goodness Home traps thousands of players in the Desire Abyss 320.
• Players eventually regard him as the future God of Magic and the protagonist of Divine Descent; these are their beliefs, not a settled identification of him with the historical God of Magic 331 397.

Chaos City and Goodness Home

• Exploits the conflict between the Desert Orcs and Chaos City’s Inner City to establish influence over the Outer City through Reed, Polpi, and Hanks 69 75 79.
• Reasserts authority over its leadership and treats incoming refugees as future labor and resource providers 101 106.
• Forces Chris to rebuild Goodness Home after the battle in its ruins, establishing a fortified settlement centered on his castle 121 124.
• Goodness Home’s associations, residents, and contracted professionals make his increasingly expensive advancement sustainable 140.

Divine Court and Chaos Sea

• Turns the Sea God’s Heart’s confinement into a strategic advantage by controlling the region’s entry restrictions 160 168.
• Profits from Divine Court expeditions through maps, supply stations, tolls, and ransoms 169 176 189.
• Uses contracts and recruited enemies to infiltrate powers preparing to attack Good People Island 274 275.
• Seeks the Divine Court’s inheritance while remaining wary of accepting “Teacher’s” associated responsibilities 303.

Wealth Abyss and Desire Abyss

• Redirects expansion toward the resource-rich Wealth Abyss because continental resources may be insufficient for his advancement 223.
• Builds coercive production systems around Abyss creatures, cores, cultivation, and lifespan reduction 237 252 260.
• During his forty-year absence, Wayne organizes all 99 Insect Realm Passages into regulated Lower Realms beneath the Desire Abyss 304.
• Returns to secure personal loyalty, upgrade his physical talents, and confront threats against his Divine Realm territory 304 306 308.

Spell Reorganization and Divine Hunting

• Consolidates his magic around a few core spells, culminating in ten-element Meditation and Fireball 319 320 321.
• Traps and overwhelms the Howling God, then pursues further divinities for upgrade resources 323 325 327.
• Captured divinities and infiltrated believers expand Goodness Home’s intelligence network across the Divine Realm 347.

Divine Court Academy

• Exploits Spell True Spirits and Bamboo Men as upgrade resources, repeatedly disrupting the training environments’ intended rules 354 358 413.
• Outgrows the Mighty Figure, Light-Taker, and Giant Vertical Eye, forcing his enemies to retreat and cooperate 416.
• Encounters temporal chaos and gains further insight into the time spell element 420 428.
• Returns to the Divine Realm with greater strength and a supreme mindset, having overcome the imagined enemy that long dominated his fears 441 443.

Ninth Layer and Conflict with “Teacher”

• The Divine Court Ninth Layer approaches him immediately after his Lv231 advancement 469.
• Finds Li Dabao trapped in a battlefield-like mental world and exploits its repeating rewards to raise his spells 472 473 476.
• His disappearance leaves Chris searching the Divine Realm for him 473.
• Enters a prolonged contest with “Teacher,” balancing forced seclusion, spell growth, and research into countering his attacks 480 481.
• In the latest supplied confrontation, his attacks leave “Teacher” unable to resist within a minute; the passage does not establish “Teacher’s” final fate 483.

Notable Quotes

“Everything I do is righteous. Everything I do is for myself. I am the embodiment of justice!” 471

“Wait here for me. I’ll be right back.” 398

Trivia

• An Kai regularly judges summons by whether they can provide food, Magic Cores, transport, or combat utility 41 69 79 86.
• Hanks’s Shak-language translations are deliberately supplied as disconnected fragments, allowing An Kai to obtain their meaning without exposing the complete books 79.
• His Lord of Desire Token appears to him as a sword and shield, reflecting aggression toward the outside world and vigilance against it 287.
• The Godkin Ranking measures historical potential across beings from different eras; the Divinity Ranking measures strength rather than placing significant weight on talent 321 476.
• After sensing time magic, An Kai rejects returning to his former life. He concludes that defeating his remaining enemies will allow him to feel rooted in his current world 420.